After Mariana Cook's photographs of dry stone walls featured on the Today Programme, listeners have been sending in their own efforts. Roger Knott took this photograph in Mount Saint Bernard Abbey.
Richard Clauson snapped this peaceful Peak District wall while out walking east of Bakewell, an area also visited by Mariana Cook on her world wall tour.
Giles Rocholl was out and about near Harrogate when "the striking quality of the greenness" of this wall just called out to be photographed, he says.
This dry stone wall, photographed by Edward Whitfield, allows walkers to roam where sheep cannot near the Low Force waterfall in upper Teesdale.
This wall struck Annie and Brian Marshall as somewhat strange, while cycling high on the moors in County Durham. "It's a bit more economical I suppose," says Brian, of the missing stones.
This wall, on the North coast of Cornwall, was photographed by Cecilia Shakerley, during her year-long mission to walk the entire South West coastal path
These dry stone walls fill the landscape surrounding Duncan Williamson's home in Halifax, West Yorkshire. "Just imagine the man who built it," he says. "They are art."
Dry stone walls make good subjects from all angles, as this picture of a snow clad wall in the Lake District, by Michael Scuffil, shows.
Gill Reynolds' garden wall in Loch Winnoch, near Glasgow, blew down in the May gales. She had it restored to its former glory by local stone masons. "I�m so thrilled with my wall," she says.
John Zvesper photographed these walls near his home in the Valleraugue, France. You can see in them the repairs of countless generations, he says, including his own. "They don't last forever. It's a constant battle."
The walls in Marjan, a forest park near the Croatian town of Split, were photographed by Brian Shipman. Controversy surrounds the park, which is under threat from developers.
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